Adolescent boys' intentions of seeking help from male friends and female friends

Sears, Heather A.; Graham, Joanna E.; Campbell, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2009.02.004

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“…Consistent with research on typically developing adolescents' friendships (Poulin and Pedersen, 2007;Sears et al, 2009), female adolescents with an ASD perceived higher levels of help from their same-gender friends, and male adolescents perceived more help and closeness from their opposite-gender friends. Previous studies have suggested that females are socialized to be more supportive (Poulin and Pedersen, 2007), and are often perceived as a better source of help than males regardless of the gender composition of the friendship (Rose and Rudolph, 2006).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Therefore, adolescents with an ASD may turn to their female friends with problems because they anticipate receiving support from them. Females have been reported to be less likely to ridicule or judge people who ask them for help as weak (Sears et al, 2009). This lack of judging may be another reason motivating adolescents with an ASD to seek assistance from their female friends.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Friendship characteristics and activity patterns of adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder

Kuo

Orsmond

Cohn

et al. 2011

Autism

114

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This study compared perceptions of adolescents' friendships between adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their parents, examined factors associated with friendship qualities, and investigated the adolescents' reports on the activities they did with friends and how activity patterns differed by gender. Ninety-one adolescents with an ASD and their parents completed mail-based surveys during the summer months. Adolescents with an ASD identified more friends than did their parents, but they agreed on the friends' characteristics. About half of the adolescents spent an average of 4 hours per day with friends during the summer months. Male adolescents with an ASD most frequently played video games with friends, whereas females most frequently had conversations with friends. The findings suggest that adolescents with an ASD and their parents identify different peers as the adolescent's friends. The findings also reveal similarities and differences in friendships between adolescents with an ASD and typically developing adolescents.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

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confidence: 99%

Friendship characteristics and activity patterns of adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder

Kuo

Orsmond

Cohn

et al. 2011

Autism

114

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“…The results show that prosocial networks partly reproduce the behavior of other types of positive networks, although differences remain. Similar to friendship and likability networks, helping relations were mutual and clustered in groups (Huitsing et al, 2012;Sentse, Kiuru, Veenstra, & Salmivalli, 2014;Veenstra et al, 2013). However, these tendencies were less pronounced in helping networks (Huitsing et al, 2012;Veenstra et al, 2013); we found that adolescents who received help more often gave help less often over time, suggesting an inclination counter to mutuality.…”

Section: Network Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 52%

Who helps whom? Investigating the development of adolescent prosocial relationships.

Rijsewijk¹,

Dijkstra²,

Pattiselanno³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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We investigated adolescent prosocial relations by examining social networks based on the question "Who helps you (e.g., with homework, with repairing a flat [bicycle] tire, or when you are feeling down?)." The effects of individual characteristics (academic achievement, symptoms of depressive mood, and peer status) on receiving help and giving help were examined, and we investigated the contribution of (dis)similarity between adolescents to the development of prosocial relations. Gender, structural network characteristics, and friendship relations were taken into account. Data were derived from the Social Network Analysis of Risk behavior in Early adolescence (SNARE) study, and contained information on students in 40 secondary school classes across 3 waves (N = 840, M age = 13.4, 49.7% boys). Results from longitudinal social network analyses (RSiena) revealed tendencies toward reciprocation of help and exchange of help within helping groups. Furthermore, boys were less often mentioned as helpers, particularly by girls. Depressed adolescents were less often mentioned as helpers, especially by low-depressed peers. Moreover, lower academic achievers indicated that they received help from their higher achieving peers. Rejected adolescents received help more often, but they less often helped low-rejected peers. Last, low- and high-popular adolescents less often helped each other, and also high-popular adolescents less often helped each other. These findings show that (dis)similarity in these characteristics is an important driving factor underlying the emergence and development of prosocial relations in the peer context, and that prosocial behavior should be defined in terms of benefitting particular others. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Research has shown that youths' higher emotional competence is related to more social support in their friendships (Ciarrochi et al, ), higher competence at self‐disclosure is related to youths' intimacy in their friendships (Buhrmester, ), and perceived friendship closeness is linked to college students' use of support coping from each other (Chow & Buhrmester, ). In addition, youths' reports of social support, another friendship feature, mediated relations between their characteristics and help‐seeking intentions in three studies (Ciarrochi et al, ; Ciarrochi et al, ; Sears et al, ). However, none of these studies described a process for girls in relation to a female friend.…”

Section: Adolescents' Help‐seeking Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Research has found that adolescents' intentions to access help from friends are high and that girls have higher intentions to seek help from friends than boys (Ciarrochi, Wilson, Deane, & Rickwood, ; Raviv, Raviv, Vago‐Gefen, & Fink, ; Wilson, Deane, & Ciarrochi, ). However, with one exception (Sears, Graham, & Campbell, ), this previous work has not considered the sex of the friends, even though studies with adolescents and adults indicate that individuals view their female friends more favorably than their male friends when they are considering them as helpers (Kunkel & Burleson, ; Poulin & Pedersen, ; Sears et al, ). In light of this preference, we enhanced the ecological validity of this study by assessing the level of adolescent girls' intentions of seeking help from a female friend specifically.…”

Section: Adolescents' Help‐seeking Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeking help from a female friend: Girls' competencies, friendship features, and intentions

Sears

Mcafee

2017

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Adolescent girls frequently manage problems by seeking help from friends. We examined girls' intentions of seeking help from a female friend and whether these intentions were related to their competencies (emotional competence, self-disclosure) directly and/or indirectly via specific friendship features (companionship, closeness). Participants included 222 Canadian girls (Grades 9-12) who completed an anonymous survey at school. Results showed that girls had high intentions of seeking help from a female friend and that higher self-disclosure competence was linked directly to higher intentions. Both competencies were linked indirectly to higher intentions mediated by friendship features. These findings indicate that competencies make help seeking by girls from girls likely in multiple ways and suggest how coping programs can address help seeking in girl-girl friendships.

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Adolescent boys' intentions of seeking help from male friends and female friends

Cited by 16 publications

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Friendship characteristics and activity patterns of adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder

Friendship characteristics and activity patterns of adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder

Who helps whom? Investigating the development of adolescent prosocial relationships.

Seeking help from a female friend: Girls' competencies, friendship features, and intentions

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